My God Your God

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My God Your God:

The Misinterpretation of Religion Based on “The Call” from The Teachings of Rumi

To have religion, is to believe so firmly in something so implausible, that many are willing to die defending that idea because to lose it, to find it was never true would be too much to bear. Even if one idea is not so different from another, as a wise man once said, “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another”₁ despite the fact that if you look at any deity worshiping religion you will find they all have four things in common: a god, even if it is divided into sub personalities; a prophet; a beginning; and an end. So the true question is, just as a rose smells as sweet by any name, does a god lose his power if you call him by another?

To read the book of Rumi, is to come to an understanding that no two religions differ from another except in the form of followers as the paths to Kaaba are many. For the book says, “If you are considering the different roads, the variety is immense and the difference infinite; if you consider the goal, however, they are all in harmony and one” and this is truth. As the book explains though prose and poetry, it is not god that has changed to our whims and diversity, nor god that has allowed our wars and devastation, God is eternal; it is man that changes. It was man who lowered his eyes to the earth and accepted what he saw as the truth, what he could hold in his hands as the valuable and this was the creation of sin, this was the loss of the path to Kaaba.

It is through this loss of religion, this rejection that the sin was allowed to perpetuate as the Sons of Man began to separate religion. It was during this separation that man chose to believe accept one prophet while rejection another and in this way it was said, “I am against this year’s sun but I accept last year’s when in fact this years and last year’s sun are not different in any way…the difference comes from the fact you really didn’t experience last year’s sun.” Just as it states, what this means is that when you refuse the present prophet after accepting the previous it to say that you never understood the purpose of the prophet to begin with, it is to say that you missed the grander meaning and knowing or unknowingly you have rejected God in this way. However just as to reject god through rejecting his prophets is considered to be blinded, the way to God is not always a virtuous one man would like to believe and many of the most devote found their way through desperation.

It is much the same as the story of the man on the wall. He was dying of thirst so one day in his anger he threw a brick and heard it splash down into the water becoming enthralled by the sound. After this he began to tear down the wall more quickly until a man asked him why he did it and he explained that the wall was merely an obstacle. The more he tore it down the closer he got to the water he sought and with every brick he tossed and the sound of the water splashing from the bricks was like being given new life. As the story further explains this is much how it is with god. The more you tear down your physical understanding the closer you get to god and all that he has to offer you. It is in discarding these physical objects that you bring yourself closer to his presence and he will fill you with new life for it is only your physical body that is mortal.

It is often through this realization that those who are led astray find their way back to the Lord after they realize that physical objects means nothing to God. It is courage and faith that the Lord looks for within a person and he rewards those with these traits. As the book teaches, when you approach a merchant to buy sugar he examines the bag you brought and fills it accordingly, it is the same with the lord. The lord will grant you knowledge based upon your courage and faith, and how much you are willing to learn for it is in learning that you can dispel ignorance and misunderstanding.

Like much in the way of religion, there is often a quarrel through lack of understanding. When dealing with syntax there is no end to the possibilities of mistake as the language is ever changing so even if two men say they both are seeking God, they may come to blows over the way they have learned to say the name. However this is not what matters. How you say his name is just as the pilgrimage to Kaaba, the act itself is empty if you do not come to the understanding of God as a being of understanding and immeasurable knowledge. For the pilgrimage to Kaaba means nothing if you leave only with what you came, if you did not feel the presence of the lord and realize that he is not in the stones, that he does not reside in the walls, then you have left with nothing.

“Become a fool so your heart stays pure- not a fool, of course, who lowers himself to stupid jokes, But one who’s lost and astounded in him” All the Lord asks is that by becoming a fool you will allow him to give you wisdom for the Lord knows all things and his way shall always prevail. All the Lord asks is that you accept that all beings are naught but fools compared to him and no matter what name you call him, he is all powerful and if you are following in the footsteps of his prophets than the perversion can stop for as a wise scholar one said, “The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.”


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